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“They divided up my people as their slaves; they traded a young lad for a prostitute, and a little girl for wine enough to get drunk. Tyre and Sidon, don’t you try to interfere! Are you trying to take revenge on me, you cities of Philistia? Beware, for I will strike back swiftly and return the harm to your own heads.

“You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures and carried them off to your heathen temples.

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They cast lots(A) for my people
    and traded boys for prostitutes;
    they sold girls for wine(B) to drink.

“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon(C) and all you regions of Philistia?(D) Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.(E) For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces